The following is a report done in partnership with Temple University’s Philadelphia Neighborhoods Program, the capstone class for the Temple Journalism Department. In a small corner of the University ...

The first computers ever built were so large they took up entire rooms, something hard to imagine in a day and age when we carry mobile phones in our pockets. One of those massive machines, the ...

The ENIAC (Electronic Numerical Integrator and Computer), a machine that profoundly reshaped computing, marked its 80 th ...

CC0 Usage Conditions ApplyClick for more information. The Electrical Numerical Integrator and Computer (ENIAC) was the largest and most powerful computer built during World War II. The United States ...

A look back at the room-size government computer that began the digital era Steven Levy Philadelphia schoolchildren are drilled on the names of its accomplished citizens. William Penn. Benjamin ...

In a day and age in which we carry sophisticated mobile phones in our pockets, it's hard to imagine that the first computers ever built were so large they took up entire rooms. One of those massive ...

In February 1946, J. Presper Eckert and John Mauchly were about to unveil, for the first time, an electronic computer to the world. Their ENIAC, or Electronic Numerical Integrator and Computer, could ...

The ENIAC, or Electronic Numerical Integrator and Computer, is essentially the Great Great Grandfather of whatever device you’re currently reading these words on. Developed during World War II for ...

There are two epochs in computer history: before ENIAC and after ENIAC. While there are controversies about who invented what, there’s universal agreement that the Electronic Numerical Integrator and ...

On 15 February 1946, Penn’s Moore School of Electrical Engineering in Pennsylvania, US, unveiled the Electronic Numerical Integrator And Computer (ENIAC). The machine, which was developed between 1943 ...

ENIAC is considered the world's first fully electronic universal computer. It was programmed by six IT pioneers who were almost forgotten by time. The Electronic Numerical Integrator And Computer ...

Philadelphia schoolchildren are drilled on the names of its accomplished citizens. William Penn. Benjamin Franklin. Betsy Ross. But during all the baby-boomer years I attended schools in the City of ...